McCain's Earmark Lie
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McCain's Earmark Lie: Palin actually grubs $1 mil/day as Gov. by Kagro X
Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 03:00:11 PM PDT
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
It's been 652 days since Earmark Queen Sarah Palin took office as Governor of Alaska.
In that time, she's hustled for $453,000,000 in federal lipstick pork.
That's $694,785.28 a day. Six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents. Every day. Even Sundays!
Palin was grubbing six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents out of the federal trough on the very day when John McCain looked America in the eye and said she was taking zero.
And she took it again today, too.
And she took it on every one of the 312 nights she spent at home and billed the Alaskan taxpayers for it.
So why say it's a million dollars a day? Well, first, let me show you what Slick Sarah Palin is telling people:
On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin has repeatedly attacked Sen. Obama on earmarks. "Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in three years. That's about a million for every working day," she said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.
Ohhhh, this feels like it's going to get embarrassing in a second....
And, behold! Look what "The Math" says!
It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama's earmark record with Gov. Palin's -- their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.
Not only is Palin taking much more, but oh my word if the million dollar figure doesn't actually fit her sooooo much better than the person she's trying to use it against! What a surprise!
So that's almost a million dollars a day, whether she showed up at the office or not. A million bucks, plus $60 in her pocket for defrosting one of her own mooseburgers for lunch.
And really, Palin must be asking herself, why not chisel the Alaska state government a little bit? After all:
The state's earmark requests stand out in part because its state government is among the wealthiest in the U.S. Flush with oil and gas royalties, it doesn't impose income or sales taxes. In fact, money flows the other way: Every man, woman and child this year got a check for $3,200.
Gosh, but they're such rugged individualists up there! They're gonna launch themselves into orbit with those bootstraps, don'tcha know?
A million dollars a day. From you and me. Plus $3,200 in the bank for each one of 'em. And $60 in Sarah's pocket for every lunch at home. (Like every working mom, of course!)
It's the new fiscal responsibility, in John McCain's seven house-owning, $5 million middle class living world!

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I think you missed this one.
"a woman with values and morals"
How do you explain her ongoing lie that she killed the bridge to nowhere and is against earmarks? That seems to be the certerpiece of her campaign.
How do you explain her just a few months ago in July giving a speech praising a preacher who is a witch hunter for using his spiritual power to help get her elected governor?
Do these values include making women have the babies of men who raped them? Just want to clarify for the record.
Thanks.
"a woman with values and morals"
How do you explain her ongoing lie that she killed the bridge to nowhere and is against earmarks? That seems to be the certerpiece of her campaign.
How do you explain her just a few months ago in July giving a speech praising a preacher who is a witch hunter for using his spiritual power to help get her elected governor?
Do these values include making women have the babies of men who raped them? Just want to clarify for the record.
Thanks.>
LOL!
Sopal
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You can't possibly be serious.
If Obama's accomplishments on that bill were as paltry as ButtMissile's "highly knowledgeable source" - which, of course, he doesn't name or even vaguely identify (perhaps it's one of the voices in ButtMissile's head?) - says, why does Lugar feature it prominently on his web site in the same form that Obama does on his? Sorry, not gonna bite on an unsourced allegation from an almost-universally-wrong blog like the PowerTools.
But even if I WERE inclined to believe their tripe, that's far from the only instance of reaching across the aisle. In fact, there's the little hilarity concerning Governor Mooseburger's recent gaffe-o-matic speech-chunk regarding how she "was going to put the federal 'checkbook' online, just like she did in Alaska." Problem was...well....a video is worth a thousand conservatarian bloviations.
Here's the text of the Obama-Coburn bill, and here's the "online checkbook" it created. With the BI-PARTISAN help of Senators Coburn and Obama. It's actually kinda fun, shooting down each new silliness of yours. Kinda boring, though....and not much of a challenge. Ah, well....guess I have to go to debate with the opponent I HAVE, not the one I WISH I had.... ;o)
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
Well, I said I wasn't 'comfortable' with her for a lot of the same reasons I am much more 'uncomfortable' with Obama.
BUT I would certainly choose McCain/Palin over the other option, any day, simply because they ring closer (though a little far)
Rose
Rose
*** Well, I said I wasn't 'comfortable' with her for a lot of the same reasons I am much more 'uncomfortable' with Obama. Believe me, I would choose Palin over Obama for President any day, just because of my philosophical leanings, and she's only running for VP. But that doesn't mean I can't see where her flaws are.
Oh, absolutely...I don't think you'll find any "reasonable" person who's going to argue that Palin is experienced enough to be President, especially in today's volatile foreign climate. But she does have executive experience, obviously she's got an ethic that's very popular with the people, and as McCain's second, I don't think she can get a better "Presidential" education.
*** Truth is, and I've said this before on these boards...I don't like McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden for the ticket. I'm more of a Bob Barr fan.
I was more of a "Mitt" supporter...maybe in a few years. ; )
*** BUT I would certainly choose McCain/Palin over the other option, any day, simply because they ring closer (though a little far) to my beliefs.
Go McCain/Palin!
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